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    The surname Daughtery

    An English place surname, carried by 1,318 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex D236

    Daughtery: #20,216 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Daughtery #20,216, 1,318 people Daughtery: #20,216 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Daughtery #20,216, 1,318 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Daughtery is more common than 87.5% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From Middle English Dautre, an anglicization of the French habitational surname de Hauterive (“from the high riverbank”).

    Daughtery is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,318 people named Daughtery in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 234,253 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,324.

    #20,216
    rank among US surnames
    1,318
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    -0.5%
    change since 2000 (was #19,028)

    Who is named Daughtery

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    69% of people named Daughtery identified as white (not Hispanic), 24% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.8% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 69%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 24%
    • Two or more races 2.8%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.9%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Variant spellings

    Surnames that sound like Daughtery

    Daughtery has the Soundex code D236, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code D236.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Daughtery come from?
    From Middle English Dautre, an anglicization of the French habitational surname de Hauterive (“from the high riverbank”).
    How common is the surname Daughtery?
    1,318 people in the United States had the surname Daughtery in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 234,253 Americans. It ranked 20,216th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Daughtery?
    In the 2010 Census, 69% of people named Daughtery identified as white (not Hispanic), and 24% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Daughtery?
    Daughtery is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Daughtery getting more or less common?
    Less common. 1,324 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,318 in 2010, down 0.5%.
    What are other spellings of Daughtery?
    Daltrey, Daltry, Daughtrey, Daughtry, Daultrey and Dawtrey.